Publishers make our books better.
I work for a children's publisher and we are really careful about how we make our books portray people.
Those of us who achieve good sales often work hard for those sales, and usually do our own legwork to make our books visible: many of the books de-ranked were from independent publishers, self-publishers or imprints.
The same can be said of computers that make our books, when we recognize them, the computers, as physical objects.
"It's always come from a specific point of view, which is what made our books work.
In an e-mail statement, David Steinberger, chief executive of Perseus, said: "As the leading provider of distribution services for independent publishers, including digital distribution through our Constellation digital service, Perseus is thrilled to be making our books available on the iPad".
A spokesman for the stationers said: "We decide which films we feel are relevant and fit with our brand and history... we have been making our books and diaries in pretty much the same way for over 100 years so they won't be that different now to how they were in late Victorian England".
In 1721, the sixteen-year-old Franklin, who would help topple the Puritan theocracy and change the course of American letters forever, by making our books better, introduced himself to the world: I am courteous and affable, good humour'd (unless I am first provok'd,) and handsome, and sometimes witty, but always, Sir, Your Friend and Humble Servant, SILENCE DOGOOD.
But they have gone too far by making our books - our thoughts - our culture - our history - illegal".
Kate Claughan, The Book Case's owner, thanks "the great man" Patterson for the donation, while The New Bookshop tweeted that the £5,000 will mean it "can make our kids' book section very special again when we reopen later this year".
